| NOUN | substance | porcelain clay, china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, terra alba | a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar) |
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| Meaning | A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper). | |
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| Synonyms | china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, terra alba | |
| Category of | art paper | A high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay) |
| Broader | clay | A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired |
| Substance of | Kaopectate | trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient |
| Spanish | caolín | |
| Catalan | caolí | |
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